Cluster Members: Federico Correa Pose and Matías Larramendi-Salvat
Our research cluster seeks to investigate the tension between the common and private property in Latin American literature. The common, as it was understood by Marx and developed by some Marxist thinkers, is particularly relevant when exploring fictions that emphasize that literature is a collective work on language and ideas––which can also be seen as collective means of production––that is continually being expropriated. Practices of re-writing and plagiarism constitute an evident challenge to literary property––which is based on the Romantic idea of the “original genius” and the capitalist ideology of possessive individualism––and an affirmation of the common character of language. This cluster also aims to explore the notion and status of the author and the relation between the individual and the social dimensions of writing.